Megyn Kelly Just Revealed The One Thing That Made The CNBC Moderators So Awful

While there was plenty of criticism to go around regarding the perceived liberal bias of CNBC’s moderators during Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly pointed out a different annoyance.

The prevalence of first-person pronouns within the CNBC moderators’ questions, she said, made the debate “uncomfortable to watch.”

“How about personalization of so many of the questions,” she said. “’I, I, I,’ you heard Becky Quick saying. There was one when she said, ‘I too had student loans, Senator Rubio, and I can’t figure out the math of that.’ And [John] Harwood: ‘I have spoken with The Economist. Back to Becky: ‘Our cause,’ talking about working women, ‘our cause.’”

As for the apparent bias, Kelly said the moderators’ questions were so over-the-top insulting that she began to wonder if “the moderators were pursuing a Herb Brooks-type strategy, like maybe they’re Republicans and they were trying to unite the Republican Party by being the foil.”

More than a few social media critics, however, used Kelly’s rebuke as an opportunity to cite the first GOP debate, during which she was similarly criticized for taking a hostile tone toward some of the candidates.

Funny that @megynkelly would be critical of the CNBC GOP debate moderators especially since she would have fit right in. #kellyfile